44 Low-resolution Houses presents a series of houses through a double technological and representational-aesthetic lens. All 44 houses collected here fall into one or more of the following categories of low-resolution: first, houses that vaguely resemble houses, using familiar low-res house elements like pitched roofs, chimneys, windows, doors, porches, etc.; second, houses that appear to be constructed in a low-res manner, in that one can see the construction, joints, and materials, and have a sort of cheap unfinished quality; and third, houses that are composed of low-res organization with basic geometric primitives squares, circles, and triangles arranged in a non-compositional or abstract manner. By these using these terms, low-resolution is in contrast to high-resolution architectural sophistication, gestural complex curvature, bodily organic figuration, and architectural paradigms focused on seamlessness and integrated smoothness. The 44 architects in the exhibition and catalog include 6a, Adamo-Faiden, Angela Deuber, Atelier Barda, Atelier Bow-Wow, Besler &amp; Sons, Brandlhuber+, Bruther, Bureau Spectacular, DVVT, Edition Office, Ensamble Studio, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, fala atelier, First Office, GAFPA, Go Hasegawa, Hans Tursack, HHF and Ai Weiwei, Independent Architecture, Johannes Norlander, Johnston Marklee, The LADG, Lütjens Padmanabhan, MAIO, Monadnock, MPdL Studio, MOS, New Affiliates, OFFICE, OFF-OFF, Outpost Office, PARA Project, Pascal Flammer, Paul Preissner, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Point Supreme, PRODUCTORA, Stan Allen, Tatiana Bilbao, Tato Architects, T+E+A+M, Tham &amp; Videgård, and WORKac. 
44 Low-resolution Houses was exhibited at Princeton University School of Architecture from 09/11/2018 to 11/09/2018. The exhibition catalog was edited by Michael Meredith, with a foreword by Dean Mónica Ponce de León. It was designed by MOS and Studio Lin, with photographs by Michael Vahrenwald/Esto.

44 Low-resolution Houses

Michael Meredith

Princeton SoA

Gathering: Ongoing Work by Current Interests is an unfolding portrait of the Los Angeles-based architecture and design practice Current Interests, led by Matthew Au and Mira Henry. Organized around a collection of buildings and material systems developed by Current Interests over the past five years, the book brings together images, drawings, and descriptive reflections to invoke a richly layered set of conversations that ground the duo’s collaborative process. With gathering as a framework, Current Interests argue for a design practice defined by ongoing acts of material construction that contend with the lived conditions of the built environment. Curtains, tables, facades, and urban blocks share space and are equally handled with technical specificity and poetic care. At the book’s center is an immersive visual essay and text by Au and Henry on the practice of collecting and photographing the microhistories of LA’s unknown architectures. Accompanying contributions include an introduction by Mónica Ponce de León, along with timely essays by Sylvia Lavin and Victor J. Jones. Limited print run of 750 copies.

Gathering: Ongoing Work by Current Interests

Matthew Au

Mira Henry

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